Budget delay plugins for dance music?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 30 posts since 9 Dec, 2017
2 questions here. Firstly what's a good delay plugin that's cheap?
Secondly what do you look for in a good delay for dance music? Tape delay aside, what makes one delay better than another?
Secondly what do you look for in a good delay for dance music? Tape delay aside, what makes one delay better than another?
- KVRist
- 455 posts since 13 Mar, 2018
Depending on your DAW, you could be already served. Which DAW are you using?
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- KVRian
- 1090 posts since 24 Jul, 2018
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- KVRian
- 1090 posts since 24 Jul, 2018
Heres a great list of free delays http://www.synthanatomy.com/2018/12/bes ... c-mac.html
- Banned
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
"cheap" can be a very broad thing, because it ranges from "free" to "best bang for the buck" which can go well into $100+ for fully-featured versatile plugin
Anyway, here's a list of free delays: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2011/0 ... t-plugins/
Most DAWs will already have a good to great native delay, that you can typically sync to the tempo which would be a minimum requirement for dance music. Options to have ping-pong delay (alternating delay taps in left/right channel), some kind of filtering for the further taps and ducking against the dry signal would be great to have as well - they're either there directly, or can be pieced together by chaining devices (e.g. in Bitwig, Live or Reason).
- KVRAF
- 5486 posts since 15 Dec, 2011 from Bucharest, Romania
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- KVRAF
- 4476 posts since 27 Jul, 2004
For dance music, there are 3 must haves in a delay (and they are mostly already covered by your DAW´s stock plugins):
1. PingPong mode
2. dotted values
3. HP filter (while this could be done in the DAW too...)
Everything else doesn´t really matter as the mixes are too dense to noticed much tonal differences if it is an emulation of ABC blablabla
Special delay plugins for sounddesign/experimental stuff are different of course... if you are looking for such stuff wait till Melda Production MTurboDelay is on sale... this is the most versatile soundmangling delay on the market as it covers spectral parts too
1. PingPong mode
2. dotted values
3. HP filter (while this could be done in the DAW too...)
Everything else doesn´t really matter as the mixes are too dense to noticed much tonal differences if it is an emulation of ABC blablabla
Special delay plugins for sounddesign/experimental stuff are different of course... if you are looking for such stuff wait till Melda Production MTurboDelay is on sale... this is the most versatile soundmangling delay on the market as it covers spectral parts too
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- KVRAF
- 1525 posts since 29 Oct, 2015 from Jupiter 8
The one in your DAW is probably already great for this task
The new ValhallaDelay is a great allrounder with great sound for a great price, but demo first if you really need it.
Always remeber: less is often more, you don't need numerous tools that do the same (even though i'm a delay slut myself, i could actually do with just one 99% of the time)
and in addition to the features Trancit stated, i'd add ducking as a very handy feature if you like to work with inserts and don't want to use sends for everything
The new ValhallaDelay is a great allrounder with great sound for a great price, but demo first if you really need it.
Always remeber: less is often more, you don't need numerous tools that do the same (even though i'm a delay slut myself, i could actually do with just one 99% of the time)
and in addition to the features Trancit stated, i'd add ducking as a very handy feature if you like to work with inserts and don't want to use sends for everything
The GAS is always greener on the other side!
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- KVRian
- 1090 posts since 24 Jul, 2018
I would buy the August or September issue of Computer Music Magazine that comes with the KiloHeart Snapins for $4 off Google n ull get over 100 free vsts including the KiloHeart Snapins that have a delay, pitcher, reverser and Trance Gate in they're SnapHeap vst.
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- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
kiloHeart's Delay is free (as are 3-band EQ, Chorus, Gain, Limiter & Stereo snapins) so grab it together with free SnapHeap to play with parallel FX chainsSoundPorn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:11 am I would buy the August or September issue of Computer Music Magazine that comes with the KiloHeart Snapins for $4 off Google n ull get over 100 free vsts including the KiloHeart Snapins that have a delay, pitcher, reverser and Trance Gate in they're SnapHeap vst.
https://kilohearts.com/products/snap_heap
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- KVRian
- 912 posts since 3 Feb, 2015 from UK
A couple of options...
Free - Cocoa Delay
Free honorable mentions: PSP cmDelay (free with Computer Music magazine), TAL Dub2, Valhalla FreqEcho, Interupter Analogic Delay (32bit only)
Paid - Valhalla Delay brand new and very, very good
Paid honorable mentions: u-he Colour Copy, D16 Repeater (or Sigmund), Sonic Charge Echobode, TAL Dub-X, AudioThing OuterSpace
Free - Cocoa Delay
Free honorable mentions: PSP cmDelay (free with Computer Music magazine), TAL Dub2, Valhalla FreqEcho, Interupter Analogic Delay (32bit only)
Paid - Valhalla Delay brand new and very, very good
Paid honorable mentions: u-he Colour Copy, D16 Repeater (or Sigmund), Sonic Charge Echobode, TAL Dub-X, AudioThing OuterSpace
- KVRAF
- 2338 posts since 28 Feb, 2015
The OP has 4 posts in total, 4 different threads, asking 4 diffrent things. He/She never comes back to even thank for the tips. Why even bother replying to these kinds of threads?
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- Banned
- 163 posts since 9 Jan, 2011
These "best fx" posts are really tedious. "Best" is totally subjective. These people are just too lazy to do a bit of research, or even to try out different products to see what works well for them.
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- KVRAF
- 4751 posts since 22 Nov, 2012
oooo, is this a list every delay thread? that's better then another list every synth thread. i'm going to go with.... let's see... i'll throw out tkdelay and dubstation. no copying people!